Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-06

nowadays.
Bets of five to three have been made
in Chicago all along. that not one of
the anarchists would hang. All posi-
BILE delay will be secured, and then the
governor will be asked to change the
sentence to one of imprisonment for
life.
LET every man who has pride in our
town and county do his individual
share to make the present week one of
pleasure to the visitors who may be
with us, and there will not be a single
regret that the first meeting of the
fair was held this fall.
LYONS mourns and will not be COM
forted. The Santa Fe depot at that
place was burned last spring, as will be
remembered, but that great corpora
ton with it's uncounted wealth has
not seen fit to rebuild it. Certainly
the good people of Lyons have reason
to complain.
WEST POINT cadets are taught that
"a liar is worse than a highway rob
ber." Other great institutions teach
that GA base ball catcher is greater
than bank President and "a pitcher
is greater than catcher" In Kansas
colleges we teach that mo state is
greater than Kansas
IF ever paper doomed town un-
ceasingly that paper is the Pueblo
Cl,iettain. By the way Pueblo is good
town and the prospects for rapid and
continuous growth are excellent. The
citizens seem to fully realize all that
the Chiettain is doing for them and
they seem to be reciprocating by Civ
ing it a liberal patronage.
THE people who predicted that Kan
sas would go to the eternal bow-wows
because of little drouth in the months
of June and July are beginning to find
out that they missed their bearings.
The boom of Kansas is founded on an
enduring basis and will grow In vol
umns as the years roll on. The drouth
of last summer will no more impede
the onward march0oflKansas than All
embankment of sand will stay the
mountain torrent as it pOurs on to the
ocean. These fertile prairies were new
er made for an empire of solitude.
The tillers of the soil may meet with
few reYerses here, as elsewhere, but
the general tendency is onward and up
ward. The farm of those western
plains is spread abroad over the land
and emigrants will pour in until every
acre is made subject to the plow. Un-
til then Kansas must boom.
THERE is growing sentiment
among .the people that it is getting
about time for the c. X. & w. railroad
to perform it's contract in regard to
building a round house at this place.
This was one of the considerations
held out to induce our people to vote
the $4,000 bonds to aid in its con-
struction. While it is generally con-
ceded that corporations of this kind
are soulless yet the highest legal
authorities have long ago decided that
they are responsible for contracts of
this kind and bound by their conditions
as much as any private individual. The
old cry that it will never do to fight a
railroad and thereby incur its enmity,
lest it should bring ruin on the town,
has been used too long in cases of this
kind. This was fair contract enter
ed into by the people and this railroad.
A reasonable time has elapsed and the
railroad has taken no steps to perform
it's contract, it has made no prepera-
ton to perform it, and the inference
is that it does not intend to. 1t re-
mains for the people to say whether
they will quietly submit to the dictation
of this road.
WE WANT to say just q word in the
interests of our business men and the
farmers on the wheat and flour ques=
ton. Recently there We're several car
loads of flour shipped into this city
from the east, and sold at u few cents
less per hundred than our home made
flour was sold for. This looks to be
fair and just enough. But, on the
other hand, our mills have been pay
ing the farmers more for their wheat
than the eastern markets were paying,
and have also been giving the mer-
chants who handled our home manu-
factured flour greater per cent. of
profit than they can make on the flour
shipped in. From the fact that our